Stalin’s Chicken and Other Abominations

The stories in Stalin’s Chicken and Other Abominations constitute a collection of eclectic weirditudes, ranging from the “Roman a clef”, “A Quandry”, parodying a small gallery of notable literary entities, to a nightmare adventure into prehistory in the final tale, “Naughty Boy Return (Goats Head Delight).” In between are forays into various modern sicknesses: NRA-style lunacy, domestic betrayals, the disease of ordinariness, the curse of dead love, necrophila, cocaine addiction, and so on. These are not traditional stories but rather a cartoon catalogue of contemporary abominations in prose form.